On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:32:43AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Richard Braun, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 23:37:33 +0100, wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 06:27:24PM -0400, David Michael wrote: > > > After poking around a bit more, it seems that the space is eaten by > > > debug info. Appending -g0 to CFLAGS allowed gnumach to boot > > > successfully and resulted in this: > > > > > > vm_page: DMA: pages: 4080 (15M), free: 2053 (8M) > > > > > > The difference may be because GRUB apparently passes the multiboot ELF > > > info, while QEMU does not. I'll just make sure to disable debug flags > > > when building gnumach for the time being. > > > > Yes that makes sense. > > Uh. Should we perhaps move the kernel out of the 16MiB area? I don't > think we have any such requirement here, AIUI we are just putting it > where it poses the least fragmentation issues, but the scarse DMA > resource is even more important.
That's what Linux does. It should be configurable though. -- Richard Braun